If I remember right, this wasn’t even illegal. A lot of places in the US still have this ancient (and fucking ridiculous even back when it was new) rule that the sheriff gets to pocket any leftover cash from the prisoner care budget.
Yeah, anyways this is usually the reason behind it whenever you read anything about prisoners being fed roadkill or spoiled food or whatever. Ancient, incredibly brazen corruption.
Not at all, that’s the purpose. The article says this law was defined a century ago. It was the sheriffs personal responsibility to feed prisoners, so there was money set aside to do so.
Certainly the law is not reasonable as soon as they got beyond the money coming from someone else, the town getting bigger, we have supposedly developed as a society, it’s no longer a frontier town
If I remember right, this wasn’t even illegal. A lot of places in the US still have this ancient (and fucking ridiculous even back when it was new) rule that the sheriff gets to pocket any leftover cash from the prisoner care budget.
Yeah, anyways this is usually the reason behind it whenever you read anything about prisoners being fed roadkill or spoiled food or whatever. Ancient, incredibly brazen corruption.
That’s utterly insane.
It was likely meant to be used for other means to buy what is needed. But clearly not written well to stop corruption
Not at all, that’s the purpose. The article says this law was defined a century ago. It was the sheriffs personal responsibility to feed prisoners, so there was money set aside to do so.
Certainly the law is not reasonable as soon as they got beyond the money coming from someone else, the town getting bigger, we have supposedly developed as a society, it’s no longer a frontier town
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